Ningbo rolls out welcome wagon for global talents

Two mascots for the Ningbo Talent Day are seen in the city in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account: nbfb0574]           

Ningbo in East China's Zhejiang province will kick off a series of recruitment activities with the arrival of the city's annual Talent Day, which falls on April 20 this year.

In 2019, the city designated the first day of Grain Rain, a solar term in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, as Talent Day. The move was meant to attract talents from around the world to work or start businesses in Ningbo.

This year's edition will see the city release new talent introduction policies, stage job fairs across the nation, and ink talent cultivation agreements with a number of universities and research institutes a week before and after April 20, according to the organizers.

More than 3.6 million people have participated in the event's previous editions through online and offline channels, according an official at the Talent Office of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee.

Ningbo has made significant progress in expanding its talent pool in recent years.

A report released by online recruitment platform Zhaopin in June 2021 ranked Ningbo eighth among Chinese cites in terms of attractiveness to talents.

In the first seven months of 2022, 105,000 college students sought employment or to start their businesses in the city, up 17.5 percent year-on-year. Among them, more than 27 percent held a master's or doctoral degree.